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Asked: 2018-10-09 14:23:16 +0800 CST

how to open PDF file at specific page in the terminal?

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I am trying to open a .pdf file with FoxitReader from the terminal.

The following works on the terminal:

/opt/foxitsoftware/foxitreader/FoxitReader "Document.pdf"

But this doesn't:

/opt/foxitsoftware/foxitreader/FoxitReader "Document.pdf /A page=5" It launches the FoxitReader GUI application, displaying "the file could not be found". The document has more than 5 pages.

  • Foxit Reader version is 2.4.1.0609
  • Ubuntu 16.04

is this option not available for linux systems? Did the syntax change? Do I need to install a plugin?

I also tried 

/opt/foxitsoftware/foxitreader/FoxitReader -h
/opt/foxitsoftware/foxitreader/FoxitReader --help

but it fails to open these, too :(

Edit: I attempted the same in Adobe Acrobat Reader

/opt/Adobe/Reader9/bin/acroread /A "page=3" "Document.pdf"

with the same result. As always, instructions are documented for windows. I tried a couple of other PDF viewer now...

is there any free PDF reader able to:

  • run in linux
  • open PDF at a specific page
  • highlight text
  • display page in full view (optional)

?

thank you

command-line pdf adobe-reader foxitreader

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Evince is a PDF viewer able to open PDF files at a specific page using the terminal with the following command:

    evince -i 5 "path/to/document.pdf"

    where -i option specifies the page of the document, 5 in this example, and the second argument specifies the path to the document to open.

    Okular is a PDF viewer able to open PDF files at a specific page using the terminal with the following command:

    okular -p 5 "path/to/document.pdf"

    where -p option specifies the page of the document, 5 in this example, and the second argument specifies the path to the document to open.

    Acrobate Reader is a PDF viewer able to open PDF files at a specific page using the terminal with the following command:

    /opt/Adobe/Reader9/bin/acroread /a "page=5" "path/to/document.pdf"

    where page=5 is the argument that specifies the page of the document, 5 in this example, and the second argument specifies the path to the document to open.

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  2. The Firefox PDF viewer will open at a page number by appending #page= followed by the page number to the URL, for example

    firefox "file://$PWD/myfile.pdf#page=150"

    The quotes are necessary if there is a space in your current path name. I like to use symbolic links and this won't work from the shell if the file is a symbolic link, but this does

    firefox "file://$(realpath myfile.pdf)#page=150"
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